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O.K. and what about February and March time, no opinion so far.

Yes, they have, and amongst others they put forward whatsis name, Oh, you know the one Leader of the Cancel.

Rubbish, they shouldn't force anyone onto our area that isn't fit to represent us.

No, Hyndburn is a seat you could have fought well given a Local Candidate.

Excuse me? What else should he be? He wants to represent the area and Actually believes in us.

My God that's uppish! Had you been there would there have been a different result?

Yes, I've often said when things go 'Tits up', lets make the best of a bad job,

Maybe we can convince the Boss*, that all our plans meant to be in such a haphazard way?

*substitute Electorate.


Let's face it you were asked for an opinion early, and although I admire the style of dancing, have come up with nothing except your loyalty and that appears to be blind.
:o

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Perhaps some overzealous missionary recently caught the reshowing of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, and was under the impression that the streets of the quaintly cobbled back-water were peopled by hoardes of young Jesses and Jessies, who were crying out for exorcism, in the constituency of Hyndburn.

:rolleyes:

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You don't have to be Homosexual for that, just go on a shopping spree with the Mrs carrying a brand new credit card.
:D


Halle Orchestra Brother!

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Andrew, Church is not a village it is a town - prior to 1974 it was an UDC, as were Great Harwood, Oswaldtwistle, Rishton and Clayton-le-Moors. Altham was a parish and formed part of Burnley Rural District Council and Accrington was a municipal borough.

Many of the residents of Church are heartedly sick of its status being dumbed down by Hyndburn Borough Council, especially as it is far older and more historic than most other parts of the Borough of Hyndburn.

By ignoring Church (and Altham) Karen Buckley is disregarding (and being disrespectful about) the 2 oldest and historic parts of the borough.

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Well, I would be very surprised if Karen Buckley does post on here.
So far we have 12 pages knocking her, myself included.
I very much doubt if this forum could give her a fair hearing, no I am not turning into Andrew, or for that matter Mancie.
Shame really, because none of us have heard anything off her.....

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It might seem a little concentrated, because unlike all the other candidates, we've had so little time to find out about her, before the imminent election.

It also seems that with the local Tories wishing her ill, that there hasn't been much said that is positive, and I'm sure there must be something.

Personally, if I have any knockers, I rise to the challenge, and give 'em a good knockin' back.

I hope she has similar mettle.

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I understand your summary of me. Pro Council Houses, anti Trident (spending it on Counter Terrorism), nationalisation of railways, curtailment of private sector excesses, fair tax system etc..

However I am not Hug a Hoodie. I think Labour's success in cutting crime is incredible (although the fear of crime has not fallen). We do need more youth facilities but the hard core need some sort of 'national service' or disciplined guidance whilst they are young.

I would like to see welfare reform to encourage people to be rewarded for working (which Labour is doing). I want to see unemployment benefit increased/extended as part of an insurance scheme but those hiding on welfare, particular the criminal and anti-social see their welfare cut in short.

We need to deal with the issues of immigration, which we are, it's just never advertised. We should stay out of the EURO and we were right to go to Afghanistan in some form. Hardly socialist.

Many northern MP's are similar. To the right on justice, welfare, to the left on social justice for those that play by the rules.

As an example: In the end, feeling sorry for people who go on to wreck Council Houses gave Council Houses such a bad name none have been built in recent times and ORDINARY people who would appreciate a Council House have subsequently been denied.

Whilst people abuse welfare, those entitled sit under a cloud and who knows with the next Tory government. The innocent will pay because of the guilty. It's up to Labour to identify those that do not respect societies charity or else the Tories will delight in ending that charity such as Council Houses.

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This is part of the rules and many posts have been removed because of them

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I see the Fylde Conservatives have chosen a local candidate in Blackpool South, to try and win back the seat from Labour.

He certainly plays up his ties to the locality, and seems to think it important.

He's so local, he says he was born on the promenade.

I hope it wasn't on a Bank Holiday!

YouTube - Ron Bell Blackpool South Conservative Candidate

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'To the evident frustration of ConservativeHome, Tories in Hyndburn earned the dubious distinction of being the last constituency in England to pick their candidate despite its description in the latest edition of The Almanac of British Politics as a ”classic Labour-Conservative marginal”. It has now emerged that this was the result of convoluted brinkmanship between local members and CCHQ, who were “desperate” to stop Cllr Britcliffe being selected for the third time since 1997.
Political Scrapbook

It's nice we came top, or is that botton, of at least one national list.

:rolleyes:

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Well, I have heard of prescription drugs having strange side effects. ;)

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No, these knockers are much less perky.

I recently posted a link from a website promoting Ms. Buckley, but quoted some pseudo-Latin on her site, which was quite rightly reported, for not being English, and removed from our forum.

In the same post she also said on this that she supported 'flexible working hours for all parents'.

I commented that was fine if you worked for a large company, but not very feasible if you're a butcher on Accy Market, a landlord from Clayton, or worked for a small family run firm in Ossy.

Strangely the comment, and indeed the site seems to have now vanished into the ether.

:rolleyes:

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Well, the latin passage is that "rhubarb, rhubarb" stuff that designers put on an ad, piece of literature or website, when the design and headlines have been decided on, but the body copy hasn't been written. In other words, it was a work in progress and somebody cocked up by releasing it into the public domain prematurely. It would seem that they've realised their mistake and withdrawn it...which perhaps shows that someone from the Buckley camp does read Accyweb!

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Which is encouraging.

Two candidates, Messrs. Jones and Logan, have posted on Accy Web, about their views, which might help us to decide who to vote for in the forthcoming General Election. It'd be good to have a few more brave souls.

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Since there's apparently been so little support for the imposed candidate, certainly from the local Conservatives here in Hyndburn, and sadly very little in this thread, so far, perhaps I shouldn't have said 'knockers', but should have chosen a singular noun.

:rolleyes: